GSCB-Workshop on Ground Segment Evolution Strategy N. Hanowski, EOP-G, Ground Segment and Operations Department, nicolaus.hanowski@esa.int 24 September 2015 ESA UNCLASSIFIED For Official Use - Slide 1
Big Data Initiatives driven by challenge of US IT commercial providers EC led Common Subjects: - Technical architecture, standards, I/F - Data & information policy - Industrial management & partnership schemes - Funding schemes ESA/MS GS-Evolution driven by desire to enable current and new users; part of ESA EO Strategies Preserving & fostering Europe s EO Data and Knowledge ESA Programme MS Programmes The Pillars of European EO Ground Segment Evolution Copernicus Space Component GS Evolution driven by needs of Copernicus services follows EC/ESA management process EC/ESA Copernicus Agreement National Sentinels Collaborative GS Right-scoping driven by ambition to stimulate new services in MS beyond core services Cooperation Agreements ESA-MS/ESA ESA UNCLASSIFIED For Official Use - Slide 2
The vision is an overall architecture that ensures coherence between the pillars of the European EO Ground Segment ESA/MS GS-Evolution driven by desire to enable current and new users; part of ESA EO Strategies Preserving & fostering Europe s EO Data and Knowledge ESA Programme - Bottom-up approach - Evolution of 4 architectural building blocks - enabling users using new ICT capabilities (exploitation platforms) - introducing missions concept to explore heritage data wealth - improving the core GS functionality incl. Data Preservation - harmonisation, standardisation and coordination - Contracts evolution towards Services - Focus on data, knowledge, competences & exploitation assets ESA UNCLASSIFIED For Official Use - Slide 3
EO Ground Segment Evolution Objectives 1. Assure availability of data & associated information for future working practices of the growing geo-information user communities. 2. Provide modular architecture for high-volume & high-diversity data preservation, access, management, processing, fusion & exploitation. 3. Harness new opportunities and tools to derive information (based on accessible and reliable data). 4. Integrate EO data utilisation development into innovation/information technology community (as in the US). 5. Increase flexibility of Core GS functions to cope with evolving data demands in this environment. 6. Foster and coordinate existing mission & data management competences and reduce operations cost. ESA UNCLASSIFIED For Official Use - Slide 4
HIGHLIGHTS In the future, the EO-Innovation Europe will make possible the federation of the stake holders assets of European EO ecosystem. This should avoid duplication of means, insure autonomy and will bring the users to the data to foster the development of downstream services. Data policy, industrial propriety rights, and governance to be taken into account. Canada, as an ESA Member State, is hosting a Copernicus Core Ground Segment Ground Station. Canadian industry will work with ESA and European companies to evolve the ESA Ground Segment. Canadian EO data infrastructure has been upgraded and will be interoperable with ESA. ESA UNCLASSIFIED For Official Use - Slide 5
HIGHLIGHTS Be flexible, avoid single source solutions & services; keep control over your assets Consider long term consequences, long term data, beyond mission duration; beyond commercial interest Beware of and keep the EO Know How, also in the ground segment Finally, EO is sensor technology & Earth science, not just bits & bytes EUMETSAT s infrastructures are directly tailored to the data access needs of our Member States (true real time data distribution). EUMETSAT will continue as part of its roadmap continuously improving its core GS functionality including the access and data preservation to its valuable meteorological EO datasets. EUMETSAT recognises the notion of "Users to the data" as just one pillar in the broad range of data access scenarios. EUMETSAT will further participate and support with the harmonisation, standardisation and coordination of EO data. ESA UNCLASSIFIED For Official Use - Slide 6
HIGHLIGHTS UK Sentinel Data Access Service web portal allows access to Copernicus data (could be expanded) and hosted processing for commercial and public use. Governance is in place to which takes into account academic and commercial interests supported by public and private sector actors. ESA EO Evolution Strategy should align with EC Copernicus programme and reuse assets and exploit capabilities already in place. ESA UNCLASSIFIED For Official Use - Slide 7